On Essays
Sets out in a new and authoritative way the history of the essay; explains how the essay has come...
EAN: 9780198707868
Step into the Circle
Beloved Appalachian writers and photographers profile each other and their homeland with words...
EAN: 9781949467123
Intelligence for Dummies
A portrait of a keen social observer at the center of the last 50 years of cultural life,...
EAN: 9781733540100
Just So You Know
This collection is an open invitation. It is a bringing together of previously untold...
EAN: 9781912681822
Feasting Wild
A writer and anthropologist searches for wild foods - and reveals what we lose in a world where...
EAN: 9781771645331
What My Mother and I Don't Talk About
“You will devour these beautifully written and very important tales of honesty, pain, and...
EAN: 9781982107352
Detroit Lives
Tells the story of a city fighting for survival. This work includes interviews with numerous...
EAN: 9781566392266
Mission to the Lord Sophy of Persia (1539 – 1542)
The description of his mission to the court of the Shah Tahmasp I of Persia by the Venetian...
EAN: 9780906094433
Three Satires
Three different representations of satirical writing are collected here in another fine edition...
EAN: 9780814788141
What Ten Young Men Did
In combat and in the bedroom, ten individuals juggle virtue and vice on their heroic progress...
EAN: 9780814762066
Mesa?ir us-su?ara or Tezkere of ?Asik Celebi
This sixteenth century biographical dictionary of Ottoman poets with comments on their style and...
EAN: 9780718902001
No Lonesome Road
A book to celebrate the life and writing of one of the Southern leaders of the middle twentieth...
EAN: 9780252071577
Helen of Troy and Her Shameless Phantom
Like the male heroes of epic poetry, Helen of Troy has been immortalized, but not for deeds of...
EAN: 9780801429552
Cool Memories IV
In this fourth collection of fragments and sketches, Baudrillard's stance is that of a barely...
EAN: 9781859844625
Lie of the Land
This collection of essays is drawn from Fintan O'Toole's writings over two decades. Its portraits...
EAN: 9781859841327
Getting Russia Wrong
Looks at the forces shaping modern Soviet society, explains why Western expectations were so far...
EAN: 9780860919773
